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Chapter 163 Lure 2
After this combination, many local farmers no longer care about whether they are foreigners. They want to get the visible benefits first. Anyway, if you sign the certificate, you will not suffer any loss, but if you don't sign, you will not get the advantage.

As for whether the local sugar-pressing workshops and some gentry landlords are happy or not, who cares?It was written in black and white in the announcement that the Yamen would punish anyone who dared to interfere.Not just talk, several sugar mills and landowners have been arrested by Yamen officials for forcing farmers in the village not to sign documents.

If you ask why the local prefecture and county governments are unwilling to support the local gentry and landlords in their hometown, it is not that they don't want to but they dare not.The new governor is a lunatic. He has no respect for the rules of officialdom, let alone humanity.

For his subordinates, he punished those who did not do things well, ranging from reprimanding to impeachment. In just half a year, two prefects and four county magistrates were killed.Oddly enough, he was very accurate in impeaching others, but when others impeached him, they basically fell into disgrace and failed to make any waves.

The governor was even more ruthless towards the local clan forces.Anyone who dares to obstruct will be sent to destroy them. No matter how many generations of inheritance you have, they will all be locked up and sent to the Zhaoqing Governor's Yamen for justice. No matter how many benefits are obtained, they will not be spared. Basically, they will be sent to the northwest and Liaodong for confinement.

As a person who grew up in Guangdong, it is difficult to get used to the local food and climate after crossing the Yangtze River. Being thrown into the northwest and Liaodong all of a sudden, don't wait for a war. Being acclimatized can kill you.Expulsion into the army was basically equivalent to a death sentence. It wasn't just a click of a knife, but torture to death.

This kind of behavior makes many officials from Guangdong and Guangxi incomprehensible. Using this method to manage local areas must be very efficient, but the side effects will be great. Once something goes wrong, everyone will blame it and punish it to death.

But they soon woke up, and their attitudes immediately changed dramatically. Some even changed from firm opposition to active participation.The reason is very simple. Someone found out the details of the Snow Sugar Factory from Fujian through connections, and also found out the origin of Li Zhi from Beijing.

The former is 100% royal property, and the people in charge are all eunuchs from the palace. The local tax inspectors will nod and bow down to be extremely polite when they see it. Who can afford to offend this thing?

As for whether the emperor did the right thing, there is no way to argue, because the "Tianen Order" promulgated a few years ago clearly drew the line. As long as the salary of the royal family is halved, the imperial village must be allowed to engage in production and planting. The profits are used to support the royal family members who are not wealthy.

When the imperial clan's benefits were reduced, most of the officials were jumping up and down in praise of the emperor's wisdom. What's the matter, they were planning to go back on their words before the praises dissipated!This is a national law, who dares to violate it?The emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not have the habit of killing scholar-bureaucrats unless they were treasonous, and his head clicked extremely smoothly.

The latter is also not a fuel-efficient lamp. When the emperor was still the prince, Li Zhi studied with him at the Siyi Pavilion, and the relationship was both a teacher and a friend.After the prince ascended the throne, he immediately became a bachelor.He is neither a member of the Imperial Academy nor a minister, but he is admitted to the cabinet as a scholar, which shows the great favor of the emperor.

This time he was expelled from the cabinet and demoted to Guangdong and Guangdong. It seemed that he was exiled by the emperor, but in fact he became the emperor's knife. The south and the north echoed each other. What happened in Guangdong was not guaranteed to be the emperor's order.

At this time, we have to say that the people in the coastal areas of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong are very flexible. Due to the lack of cultivated land, the local people have a business tradition since ancient times and have long summarized a set of effective methods on how to deal with powerful forces.

Isn’t it true that the fists are not as big as others, the backstage is not as tough as others, and it is obvious that they can’t beat them?It's okay. It's not the end of the world if we can't fight. We can still join.As long as it is profitable, it is better to live with whoever you want to be with, or even if you are not safe!risk?Is it risky to return goods to Nanyang?So why do you have to do it differently?In comparison, standing in the wrong team is nothing at all. No matter what, we were not born in a good place. If we don’t take risks, we will starve!

As a result, the originally tense situation melted quietly like ice and snow with the arrival of the spring breeze, leaving no obvious traces.The local gentry and officials no longer mentioned the topic of competing for profits with the people and disrupting the market. They instead looked for ways to get close to the new governor and his staff to test whether they could cooperate.

As a result, Li Zhi not only failed to show face, but also said that as a court official in charge, his responsibility was to abide by the law, pacify the local area, and act on behalf of the emperor and herdsmen, and he would not care about other things.Encouraging farmers to reclaim sloping land to plant new crops is entirely within the scope of their work and there is nothing to be flexible about.

As for the snowflake sugar mill monopolizing the market, that is a normal civil commercial dispute. Farmers can sell sugarcane to whomever they are willing to sell, and the sugar mill can purchase as much as they are willing to buy.Sugarcane is not something that is prohibited by the imperial court. As long as it is not forced to be bought or sold and taxes are paid according to regulations, the government has no reason to interfere and will treat everyone equally!
The local officials and gentry were frustrated by the governor. They should have been angry, but they were not. Instead, they happily went to find connections at the Snowflake Sugar Factory through their connections.

In the eyes of others, the governor's behavior was indeed too rigid and unkind, but his serious words sounded different to the ears of officials and businessmen.

The governor is not unkind, but too old and cunning.He didn't want to take any responsibility, but secretly wanted to protect the sugar mill and pointed out the door to potential collaborators.

Listen carefully, it is obviously the Snowflake Sugar Factory derived from Fujian Huangzhuang, but it is said to be a private business. Could it be that the governor is confused, or is telling lies with his eyes open?

It's not that simple, this is the way to go.The governor was probably saying: I have an official status and cannot get involved in the management of the sugar mill, let alone show partiality openly, as that would cause trouble for the emperor.

What does it mean to treat everyone equally? The subtext is probably that you go to discuss with the people at Snowflake Sugar Factory. As long as they agree, I will not impose any resistance here. I will treat you the same way I treat Snowflake Sugar Factory!
Is your understanding correct?You can’t come up with the answer just by thinking about it, you have to try.As a result, it worked out after one try. The person in charge of the reception at Snowflake Sugar Factory was called Zhuque, and his ancestor was Zhu Yuanzhang's eighteenth son, King Min Zhu Chu.

At that time, Zhu Qi was deposed as a commoner. After Zhu Di came to the throne, he restored his title and returned to Yunnan to continue to be the vassal king.After Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he brought the uncle's family, who was not well-known, to Wugang, Hunan.

Two hundred years passed by in a blink of an eye, and King Min's line branched out and formed a large family. At this time, it has been passed down to the seventh generation. The head of the family is named Zhu Dingyao, and he still lives in the palace of Wugang and enjoys prosperity and wealth.

However, the branch of Suzaku has declined, surviving only on the lowest title.By his generation, even his ancestral home had been sold. If he hadn't caught up with the "Tweening Order", he would have had to live in another country.When the local officials saw it, they thought, you have lost your home, and you will not starve to death even if you cut off half of your salary. You might as well go to Huangzhuang to work.

(End of this chapter)